Today (1 March) and Friday (4 March) riders will leave Queen Charlotte Sound on the Sounds2Sounds bikepacking event, entering the Hurunui via Molesworth and Hanmer Springs and joining the Hurunui Heartland Cycle Ride route at Culverden, then following the Heartland route all the way through the Hurunui, enroute to Milford Sound.
Check out the route here
Check out the riders progress here
Hurunui Trails will be manning a checkpoint and aid station on Balmoral Station Rd – around the 3rd and 6th of March
If you see the riders out there, yell out some support, they have a long way to go!